Feminist Propaganda In College Text Book - Wednesday, January 25, 2012

          By: Phyllis Schlafly eagleforum.org

          A woman walked into my office recently and handed me the textbook her daughter was assigned for her "Women and Gender Studies" Course at the University of Missouri/St. Louis. I was shocked at this textbook and I'm going to share it with you. The title is Women's Voices, Feminist Visions by Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee. This textbook is a collection of propaganda essays to sell students on radical feminism.

          One article pretends to describe a typical woman's life in the 1970s, which supposedly included unacceptable horrors of inequality. The student is supposed to learn that feminism saved women from oppression by the patriarchy. Other articles teach that being male is a privileged status, just like being white or heterosexual.

          The authors teach that the roles of male and female are merely learned behaviors and you can change to the other gender if you want to. Bisexuality and trans-sexuality are presented as normal. The textbook includes personal stories of adults who changed their gender. The book explains that heterosexuality exists only because of socially imposed stereotypes and homophobia, and has noting to do with nature or morality. Students are encouraged to organize a National Coming Out Day on their campus.

          A couple of articles in this textbook discuss that it is common for women to be bisexual. Of course, the book endorses abortion. The traditional model of the family is presented as only one of many forms of family. The book teaches that married women should be liberated from marriage and turn their children over to the state to be raised.

          This college textbook has a radical feminist political agenda: anti-marriage, anti-homemaker, pro-abortion, and pro-lesbian. I advise college students not to waste their tuition dollars taking women's studies courses.

We Need Pro-Family Tax Policies

By: Phyllis Schlafly

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          Why did Senator Rick Santorum suddenly surge to the status of a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President after having been treated like a not-to-be-taken-seriously contender in the many television debates? It's not only because a significant segment of conservatives voted by a super majority to back him at a meeting in Houston last week.

          It's because Santorum has sensibly addressed the intersection of fiscal and social issues. He has put on the table a consistent conservative economic and social message.

          The majority of Americans, and certainly the big majority of Republican voters, say they support traditional marriage: the union of a husband and a wife. So why are we permitting our fiscal policies to discriminate against traditional marriage and against the right and need of children to have a father and a mother married to each other?

          Don't let anyone tell you that federal policy should be neutral about marriage, children and the family. There is no such thing as a neutral tax or a neutral deduction or a neutral credit. Every part of our income tax return is a manifestation of some social policy.

          The whole concept of a progressive income tax is social policy. We as a nation adopted the social policy that those with more income must pay federal income taxes at higher rates than those with less income.

It's a decision of social policy that we can deduct gifts to religious and charitable organizations, and for retirement savings. It's a decision of social policy to promote home ownership by being able to deduct mortgage payments.

          The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), overwhelmingly passed by Congress in 1996 and signed by Bill Clinton (now under attack by the Obama Administration and supremacist judges), not only protects state marriage laws. DOMA also protects the 1,138 federal laws that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says depend on the traditional definition of marriage.

          Traditional marriage was specifically favored in the federal income tax when the great Republican 80th Congress created the joint income tax return over President Harry Truman's veto in 1948. This enabled single-earner married couples to file their income tax return as two people, which they certainly are.

Social policy honoring and benefitting the fulltime homemaker has been an essential feature of the Social Security system since its creation in 1935. Under the Carter Administration, the feminists pursued a three-alternative plan to deprive fulltime homemakers of this benefit, but they were not successful.

          The feminists, however, have largely achieved their goal of driving fulltime homemakers into the paid labor force by transferring millions of good middle-class jobs to other countries. High U.S. corporate taxes, the highest in the world, are a major factor making U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

Our current policy imposes high business taxes on profits from domestic manufacturing, while taxes on overseas profits can be postponed indefinitely. The products made by U.S. plants in foreign countries enter the U.S. with little or no U.S. tax ever paid.

          The biggest issue in 2012 is unemployment. Santorum has the best of all jobs plans in calling for an end to business taxes on domestic production.

Unfortunately, fiscal-social policy in the income tax code and in government spending has steadily devalued marriage and subsidized non-marriage. Unmarried persons with children are permitted to file as "head of household" and are eligible for the same per-child credits and deductions as married couples.

          Marriage has been discriminated against by the vast expansion of the welfare state launched by Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s. The enormous subsidies handed out from the U.S. Treasury through more than 70 means-tested programs, mostly to unmarried moms with children, now cost U.S. taxpayers more than $800 billion a year, which is more than the defense budget.

          Liberals want to continue these handouts because they subsidize non-marriage, illegitimacy, dependency on government, and votes for Democrats. Some free-market economists argue that the tax code should be neutral about raising children, and both sides are wrong.

          Marriage absence is the biggest cause of poverty and a major cause of unbalanced budgets and our colossal national debt. Any candidate who claims to be pro-marriage should favor eliminating the sections of the tax code that reward non-marriage with lower taxes; family allowances and child credits should be reserved for married parents who are raising their own children.

          A candidate cannot establish his pro-marriage, pro-family credentials by merely saying he supports a federal constitutional marriage amendment, which would take years to be enacted and may never happen. Thanks to Rick Santorum for making the taxpayers confront the fact that conservative economic policy means making our tax system pro-marriage.

Distributed by: www.worldviewweekend.com 

Emotion Is Not Devotion - By: Dwight Porter

HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY?
          This common greeting exposes one of the most dominant factors in our life. To most people the height of accomplish-ment is to feel good. The advertisers are getting wealthy by catering to this driving passion. Young people are being led down a road of shame, being victimized by their emotions. The most popular TV program is the one that can arouse a response of fear, hate, love, or joy. America is racing-headlong toward the goal of escape from reality. It is evident in the entertainment world, the make-believe reading materi-als, drugs, alcohol, and the glamorized human body.

               This emphasis on FEELING has crept into nearly all religious circles. The sensual beat of the night club is now heard from the platforms of our churches, Bible colleges, and supposedly Christian radio stations. (None of my money shall support any of them.) How unscriptural to use such fleshly appeal to attract others to the Savior! Such depraved methods reveal frustrated feelings and a demonstration that they are victims of a pleasure-mad, feeling-oriented philosophy in which one worships at the altar of pleasure and sacrifices everything to it as they become the servants and not masters of their emotions.
          The most popular religious radio and TV programs in America today are based on this mad craze for excited feelings. Their programs contain thimbles of Scripture and barrels of experience and emotions. If one should remove “the healing attraction” from their ministry, the interest and support would diminish immediately. They are endeavoring to entertain a fellowship of sick immature people. Of course they, too, have the “beat of Hollywood” in music, method, and appearance.
          The standard dictionary states that emotion is a stirring perturbation, or excitement of the mind; the power of feeling, sensibility, and sentiment. The root word means, “move out.” It lists feeling as a synonym. The same dictionary states that feeling is any mental stirring, sentiment, or emotion. One of the synonyms used is passion.
          Not only are people of the world becoming victimized by their emotions, but it becomes more pathetic when professing Christians live in his same realm. Their spiritual level is determined by how they feel. Their service and zeal is completely dominated by their emotions. The more tears shed, the greater the consecration. They follow the preacher who has the tear in his voice, and the congregation that shouts. To them such attraction is of greater importance than the presentation of the Word of God.
I FEEL LIKE IT
          So many times, when asking a person for the assurance of their Salvation, I have heard the familiar sound, “0, I feel like it.” Seldom do I hear a scripture verse or the testimony of a changed life, visible by conduct and appetite. Occasionally, there is one honest heart who says he is not saved because he does not feel like it. He heard someone state how different he felt when trusting the Savior; so the struggle and labor for a certain feeling continues with a question if he will recognize it at the proper time.
          Many churches have adopted the standards and methods of contemporary society rather than those of the Word of God. The current appeal is for more interesting approaches and content, which is a plea for entertainment, rather than solid Bible study. Since when is personal happiness our prime concern? We seem to be egocentric rather than theocentric. Today’s professing Christian is pursuing his own personal goal on a higher religious plane. Numbers and noise satisfies this crowd. They declare their methods as examples for all to follow.
           Many people in our day are caught up in the frantic pursuit of a satisfying experience. Remember the men who turned the world upside down did not tell people about their exciting experience, nor was their burden to show how to discover the emotional experience of the spirit-filled life. Not one apostle or Bible preacher, including Paul, told of such an experience. They did not present themselves as spirit-filled men or boast of a superior spiritual attainment. The Holy Spirit (within the pages of the Bible) simply declared them as spirit-filled men. They had no preoccupation with inward experiences that produced emotional reactions in their lives. There was no programming to overwhelm emotions to produce an inward hysteria of intoxication.
Men today take the spotlight from Christ to the glorification of a religious experience under the pretext of honoring the Holy Spirit in the glorification of man by the effect upon his emotions. In so doing, they cast TRUTH down and exalt the creature rather than the creator.
BACK TO THE BIBLE
          We must stop allowing feelings to dominate our being and discover what the Word of God says. Can we find one scripture verse that gives us assurance of heaven on the basis of our feelings? I would not walk across the street to hear an experience but I would walk miles to hear refreshing news from the Bible. Go ahead and beg and weep all you want; but as for me and my house, we are going to take God at His Word and get busy doing what He has told us (in His Word).
          What does the Bible say about feeling? The word is found only twice in the entire Bible. The first time is in Ephesians 4:19. ‘Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.” The word ‘feeling’ actually means ‘senseless’ resulting of a long process of hardening as shown in the 18th verse. This word can properly be translated “being past hope.” The only other scripture that uses this word is Hebrews 4:15. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the felling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” Again, this word is not the same as our present day understanding. The Greek can be translated: “Cannot sympathize with our infirmities.” The root meaning is sympathy.  
          In only seven places in the Bible will you find the word ‘feel.’ In four places it is talking of the sense of touch. In one place it is the lack of satisfaction. In another it does not refer to humans and in the other it is denoting experience.
          Feeling and emotions are not involved when it comes to the necessary steps of Salvation. Do not misunderstand me. We are emotional creatures and God has created us with a capacity to react and respond to approaches received through our five senses. But the Bible is clear and plain that we are not brought into personal relationship with God’s Son through our emotions. We do not have assurance on the basis of our fluctuating feelings.
Emotion is not Devotion - continued

 
DECEIVED THROUGH EMOTIONS
          In the Garden of Eden, Eve was deceived upon responding emotionally to Satan. She allowed her five senses to dominate all other faculties. We know the horrible consequences. Her failure to obey God was the result of Satan succeeding to make her self-conscious. Notice her five senses in action in the third chapter of Genesis:
Hear - YEA HATH GOD SAID, vs.3
Taste - WE MAY EAT, v.2,3
Touch - NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT, v.3
Sight - THE WOMAN SAW-PLEASANT TO
THE EYES, v. 6
Taste - GOOD FOR FOOD, v.6
          When emotions rule, pride always shows itself because of self-consciousness. “.. . And a tree to be desired to make one wise.” (Genesis 3:6)
          God gave a commandment that required obedience. The devil appealed to her desire, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. His method remains unchanged; as we see its demonstration throughout the Bible. Living according to feeling is the greatest hindrance to Godliness that we face. (Listen for it as many preachers and laymen use this unscnptural word.) “I feel.” Godly living, by God’s commandments, results from a Biblical structure and personal discipline. The Bible clearly indicates that God deals with our heart, mind, and spirit. “The spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” (Romans 8:15) To live according to feeling reflects a foreign religion and morality not found in the Bible
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-10)
          These and many other verses settle forever the issue of our part in Salvation. God’s glorious provision in His Son made available to us is the result of His Grace. We are not saved upon the basis of our faith. It was God who loved us and gave His only begotten Son that we might not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
Notice that it is through faith that we that we have access to this grace. “By whom (Christ) also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” (Romans 5:2) We are not saved by what we do, it is a matter of believing in what Christ has done for us. You cannot be faithful in order to get to heaven. Christ alone was faithful and we must believe in His work.
          “Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: For there is no difference.” (Romans 3:22) We possess God’s righteousness on the basis of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. This righteousness is unto us and upon us when we believe in Christ’s righteousness. (See Galatians 2:16, 3:22) Will you take God at His Word and believe Him to do as He has promised or will you try to feel this which can only be received by faith?
HE REJOICED
          Notice the result of believing in Christ! The jailer who ordered the stripes upon Paul’s back now washes him and is baptized by him. (Acts 16:33) In the next verse we find them in fellowship around the table in the jailer’s house. The Bible informs us that HE REJOICED. Why not? Was he not now a child of God? Had not God forgiven him of all sins? Did not God keep his promise? The jailor gave praises to God as Paul did in prison.
          Here is genuine emotion that results from contact with the cleansing Blood of Christ. I want you to notice the timing. He rejoiced after he believed, for the 34th verse implies that he rejoiced because he had believed. You, too, will be happy when you believe God to do what he promised. For God cannot lie. The Bible tells us that He will remember my sins and iniquities no more forever. (Hebrews 10:17) “As far as the east is from the west has He removed my transgressions.” (Psalms 103:12) Praise the Lord! I believe it! For these and many other reasons this preacher is full and overflowing with joy, thrill, and delight.
          The steps are simple. First, the grace of God has already been manifested. Second, Christ was faithful on the Cross satisfying God’s just judgment upon sin and meeting His righteous standards that demand perfection. Third, you can now believe God’s promise and receive Christ’s provision to take away your sin. Fourth, it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to inform your spirit of his transaction. “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” (Romans 8:16)
          It is not your labor that imparts this witness. It is God’s work to do exactly that which he promised. Will you, the best way you know how, believe God’s Word? Will you let God take care of the witness of His Spirit? Remember, you rest upon the finished work of Christ in your eternal behalf. Faith is provided for you through the Word of God after His Spirit reveals sin through Biblical Truth. Believe God, independent of feeling, seeking, and begging. God wants to save your soul far more than you will ever desire Him to. “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (II Peter 3:9)

By: Dwight Porter (http://thehourofgraceandpower.org/Docs%20and%20Literature/Peace-Contentment/Emotion%20is%20not%20Devotion.pdf)

Bringing Up Children - By: Henry Morris

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“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4).

          This verse, together with the parallel passage in Colossians 3:21, is probably the key New Testament instruction specifically dealing with the training of children. “Nuture” is from the same Greek word that is translated “chastening” in Hebrews 12:5, 7, and “instruction” in 2 Timothy 3:16.  It has particular reference to carrying out child training with both firmness and gentleness, as needed and appropriate in each particular case.

          The term “admonition” is from a Greek word meaning “putting in mind.”  Thus, the “admonition of the Lord” implies teaching the ways of the Lord by using the Word of the Lord.  There is no substitute for implanting a knowledge of God’s Word in the minds of our children.  Even if they should drift away for a while in later life, the Lord can use His Word in their hearts to bring them back.

          Both types of training—through action and through verbal teaching—are said in this passage to be primarily the responsibility of the father.  The first reference in the Bible to training children deals with Abraham’s responsibility to bring up his children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (see Genesis 18:19).  Mothers, of course, also have much responsibility and ability in this ministry (see Proverbs 1:8, and the example cited by Paul himself of how Timothy’s mother and grandmother had taught him—2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15).  Fathers, too, sometimes delegate certain teaching responsibilities to tutors (Galatians 4:1-2), but the overall responsibilities are theirs.

          And all of this training should be done in love.  “Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged” (Colossians 3:21).  Then we trust the Lord and pray.

By: Henry Morris – From the Days of Praise daily devotional by the Institute For Creation Research.  For a free copy of the Days of Praise call 1-800-337-0375 or go online at: www.icr.org

Are You a Woman Who Woos? Take the Assessment

The Woman Wooer Assessment

1. A guy you are interested in is having car troubles and is disappointed because he had planned to go visit his family and they live two hours away. He asks to borrow your car. You:

a)      Suggest he ask someone else

b)      Lend him your car, with the knowledge that this is a one-time only thing

c)      Fill up the car with gas, clean it out, give him the keys and say, “Have it back whenever.”

d)     Say with a girlish smile and giggle, “You can borrow my car if you promise to pay me back somehow…”

2. You eat at your favorite sandwich restaurant, having wonderful conversation. The server leaves the bill and he reaches for it while he reaches for his wallet. He realizes he only has $2 and says, “I’ll leave the tip, but do you mind catching this one?” You

a)      Say, “Yes, I do mind. Why didn’t you check your wallet before we left?”

b)      Smile coyly, wink, and say, “Anytime, babe, anytime.”

c)      Tell him you have to use the restroom and run out while he’s not looking.

d)     Force yourself to look sweet and say, “Oh, that’s no problem. It could happen to anyone. And put that money back, I don’t mind paying the tip! You drove, after all.”

3. You and your guy are joking around in your kitchen. You are being silly and even having a tickle fight. In the middle of a burst of laughter, he looks at the clock and says, “Oh, I better get going. I am tired. See ya later” and walks out of your apartment. You

a)      Pause a moment before running out your door and down your stairs, catching him just as he is getting into his car, breathlessly saying, “Are you mad at me?”

b)      Stand there in shock for a moment before you burst into tears and then call your best girlfriends, telling them every detail of the situation.

c)      Call him five times on his cell phone (he isn’t answering) before you finally leave a voice mail saying, “I don’t know what just happened. Are you mad at me?”

d)     Shrug your shoulders, say, “That was weird,” and clean up the dishes, not thinking about it again.

4. It’s 2:00 in the morning, and you have been snoring and drooling for at least two hours. Your guy calls and says, “I couldn’t sleep and was bored. I didn’t wake you, did I?” You respond by:

a)      Saying, “Yeah, you did, but I can talk for a few minutes” …which ends up being 67 minutes before he hangs up, saying he is tired.

b)      Yelling, “Leave me alone!” and then hanging up the phone

c)      Saying, “Oh, I was awake! I was just writing you a letter and wrapping the gift I ordered online, special just for you!”

d)     Not answering the phone, but letting your voice mail get it.

5. It’s 11 at night and you’re dropping your guy off at his mom’s house (where he has been staying for the past six months). He flags you down as you’re pulling away to show you that his bags have been left on the porch. He asks if he can sleep on your couch for the night. You:

a)      Roll down your window and inch, say you don’t think it’s a good idea, and speed off.

b)      Tell him you don’t let guys spend the night, but offer to take him to his friend’s house.

c)      Say, “No problem! You can even sleep in my bed and I will sleep on the couch. Hey, stay as long as you like.” You take him home, change the sheets, and whip him up a nighttime snack.

d)     Hesitantly shrug and say, “I guess you can just for tonight.” You let him sleep on the couch. However, when you can’t find a place for him the next night, you let him stay again.

6. You’ve been looking forward to this for a month, and tomorrow is the day. You and your two best friends bought front row seats to see The Nutcracker ballet. Your guy calls you around 10pm and asks if you want to go with him and his friends to a basketball game tomorrow. This is the first time he asked you to go anywhere with his friends. You:

a)      Say, “Great! I thought I was going to be bored to death watching this ballet thing with Naomi and Kelly. Now I get to hang and with you and the guys. I can’t wait!”

b)      Tell him you’re not sure if you can get off work, but you’ll let him know.

c)      Tell him about your plans, but add that you would like to do it some other time

d)     Say, “I have to go to this ballet thing tomorrow night, but maybe you and I can play some one-on-one later…if you know what I mean.”

7. You’re mingling after your weekly Bible Study gets over, talking to a guy you met last week. He seems interested because he is involved in the conversation. What is the best way to get his phone number?

a)      Twirl your hair in your finger, wink at him and say something like, “Maybe we can continue this conversation later tonight when I give you a call.”

b)      Ask him flat out, “Can I have your phone number?

c)      Make up an excuse such as: “Oh, next week I’m coming here from a friend’s house and I am REALLY bad at directions. Why don’t you give me your number just in case I get lost on the. You have a cell phone, right?”

d)     You shouldn’t be asking him for his phone number in the first place.

8. Your love interest says to you that he has been thinking lately about taking you out. He tells you he is considering doing so this weekend. On Saturday afternoon, you still haven’t heard from him. What do you do?

a)      Call him and ask him when you are going to get together

b)      Sit around and wait for him to call you…waiting…and waiting…

c)      Make other plans and keep yourself busy; when he calls back, you kindly tell him he needs to call you and make plans when he wants to hang out with you

d)     Go over to his house

SCORING:

Score your answers--

1: a=1 B=2 c=4 d=3

2: a=1, b=3, c=4, d=4

3: a=4, b=2, c=4, d=1

4: a=3, b=4, c=4, =1

5: a=3, b=1, c=4, d=4

6: a=4, b=2, c=1, d=3

7: a=3, b=3, c=4, d=1

8: a=3, b=2, c=1, d=4

Score your answers. If you got mostly 1s, you are doing well! You are not afraid to be open and honest, and are probably trusting God with your love life. If you got mostly twos, you may be afraid to be honest, and/or you are spending too much time focusing on your love life. If you got mostly 3s and 4s, I highly suggest you follow this blog. I am not an "expert" but am one who has been FREED from the chains of being a woman who woos. I spent years (too many to admit) being obsessed with guys and trying to figure out what to do to get a husband. It was when I finally gave control to God that I found JOY in HIS will, and not mine. Consequentially, he gave me a wonderful husband who pursued ME and loves God.

Whether or not you are certain that you need to be freed from the pursuit of men, I encourage you to read on. God put this on my heart to write, not only because it’s my own story of redemption, not only because it will open up your eyes to see that you are not alone, but one of millions who suffer the same, but because He wants to share His heart with you. He truly views you as his precious daughter and wants so much for you to expect the best from Him, not to suffer men who only want to use you.  Also, consider the fact that it may be your duty, as a woman, to help change the face of our society as we fight to win back the concept of family as God created it to be. Ladies, I pray that, as you read this, God will open your eyes to the treasure you are. I hope this finds you laughing, crying, and wanting better for your life.

Women Don't Woo (Introduction To Multi-Parts)

INTRODUCTION: It DID Happen to You

It starts out seemingly innocent. He forgot his wallet, so you decide to foot the bill.  He didn’t return your phone call, so you decide to call him again. His car broke down at the last minute, so you give him your keys “just this once.” You’re friends are starting to miss you at the usual hangout because you’re not around as much anymore.

However, a few months pass and you find yourself broke because you’re always paying, you’re sick to your stomach because you haven’t heard from him today, and your friends aren’t speaking to you anymore because you haven’t picked up the phone “just in case he’s trying to get through.” You’re wondering if you’re crazy because you’ve started to do “drive-bys.” You know what I mean: you have to go to the grocery store, so you just happen to take the route that goes past his house (and makes your trip five miles longer).  However, since he has had your car for the last week, you have to walk, which ends up being better…now, car-less in the night, you find it easier to stealthily walk around the house and peek in the windows at will.

            Perhaps these examples are extreme to you, or perhaps you’ve experienced something like this or even worse. Regardless of the level of your actions, I am sure I can relate, as can many women in our society today. A trend is sweeping the nation: men are sitting back because women have stepped up to woo and win their man, only to be disappointed (and often hurt) in the end.

            Maybe “woo” is too much of an old-fashioned word for you, or maybe in today’s society it is completely appropriate and almost expected of a woman to “chase” after her man. Regardless, most women are not all that proud to step up and say, “YES! I woo men!” I would venture to say that women like to think of themselves as treasure to be cherished, and most of us know that, even when we do woo and win a guy, it doesn’t leave us feeling so valuable in the end.

God set up very clear expectations and guidelines of the right position of a man and a woman in a relationship, but due to our inherent and sinful natures, we have put God’s advice on the back-burner to get our way, right away. Little did the women’s movement know that we have killed the very nature of a man by taking his job of “the chase.”   Women, we need to re-claim the throne of patience and realize that the man God has for us is worth the wait.